"Your Majesty, don't you...... It's not good to let these two nest together in Hanzhong and be embarrassed, you have to let one stay in Shannan West Road, the other in Huainan, and they are both important towns, so it's even more ......" Zheng Qi was miserable, but he couldn't say it.

But at this time, Li Mi suddenly turned around, and a pair of slender Danfeng eyes stared at Zheng Qi with fierce eyes.

Zheng Qi couldn't help but be taken aback.

But Li Mi seemed to see through his thoughts, but he didn't say anything, just made a revision suggestion to the emperor's proposal: "Now that the court and Fang Yue are in harmony, they must also be in harmony with each other, so that they can do great things well." ”

The emperor suddenly woke up and knew that what Li Mi was talking about was the struggle between Zhang Yansheng, Ma Sui, Han Yun, and Li Sheng, so he talked with Li Mi in a low voice, and the monarch and ministers quickly reached a tacit understanding.

Then Li Mi took out a piece of paper from his sleeve, and the emperor saw that it was the list of recommendations that Han Rong had collectively played with the ministers in the Qujiang Pavilion in Shangshu Province before.

The emperor didn't say anything, and took the paper.

At this time, Li Shi asked Lu Zhen, a scholar from Hanlin: "Lu Jiu, how to make peace with the rice of Sanchuan immediately?" ”

Lu Zhen immediately praised it, and said in a straight and round Wu dialect: "Tell Your Majesty, there are two major things in the world, one is the uneven price, and the other is the light and heavy money." Nowadays, the price of rice in Gyeonggi is expensive, and a bucket of coarse wheat costs 300 Wen, and taking Gao Yisong's Xingyuan Mansion as an example, because of the double rice and wheat Minoru, the price of rice has plummeted, and a bucket of wheat is only 80 Wen, and a bucket of rice is only 60 Wen. ”

"Oh, then Lu Jiu, tell me, how can this and the law achieve such a purpose?"

"Your Majesty, the reason why there is a phenomenon of cheap and cheap farmers in good harvest years is that the material is light and the money is heavy. Since the state implemented the two taxation laws, for the sake of convenience, most of the corn, wheat, rice, cloth, hemp, salt, etc., which were converted into money, were sent to Beijing, and the rest were mostly stored in local areas to prepare for flood, drought and famine. Therefore, the money is mostly collected in the public and private treasury of the Beijing Division, so that it will not circulate, making the world's money shortage more blazing, and the price of goods will be cheaper, which will not only hurt the peasants, but also hurt the workers - so Your Majesty may wish to hand over the collected money to the Northwest, Sanchuan and other places to buy rice, and purchase it at a standard higher than one-fifth of the market price, and transport it to the warehouses of the Beijing Division, so that it can not only prevent famine in Guanzhong, but also store it as military rations, and so that the people of Sanchuan do not have to sell it cheaply, so that they can kill three birds with one stone."

"Lu Jingyu's words can be said to be the essence of spring goods." Li Mi was very impressed by Lu Zhen's economic acumen.

But Emperor Li Shi can always put forward the "sound outside the strings", "What does Lu Jiu mean is that he is dissatisfied with the two tax laws?" ”

"How dare you." Lu Zhen hurriedly defended, "However, when the two taxes were first introduced, the world withered, and money was light and heavy, so money was used as the standard for paying taxes. ”

When the emperor heard this, he just nodded, and then he said, immediately use Qi Kang and Qi Ying as envoys to Jingxi, Sanchuan and Lian respectively, and go to buy rice according to Lu Zhen's method.

"Your Majesty, the minister still has a please." After solving the peace method, Li Mi proposed a plan that he had been thinking about for a long time.

"Sir, but it doesn't hurt to say that."

"It is not a trivial matter to rejuvenate the army and recover Helong. What Han Taichong said in the Xiaoyan Ying Hall is quite insightful, I prevent autumn every year in the Tang Dynasty, and the people who conquer the eastern part of the country and the western part of the capital are no less than 170,000 people every year, and they eat 2.4 million stones, and what is worse is that there are so many troops that they cannot be supplied by self-production in Guanzhong, so they must be requisitioned and transferred along the Caoyun, counting the foot power money, each bucket of corn will cost at least 150 yuan, so that the annual cost, just the autumn rations alone are 3.6 million yuan, not including the cost of the border army in the northwest. Two-thirds of the income from the two taxes was consumed in the supply of the army, and the country was in difficulty, so in order to change the situation, the ministers asked the northwest and Shannan West Road to restore the system of soldiers. ”

"Sir, do you mean to do what Gao Yue did in Baili City in the past?"

"Yes, the northwest and Shuofang have few people and more soldiers, so they simply distribute the cultivated fields to the border army and the border towns of Shence, recruit soldiers to cultivate, and lend them cattle, farm tools and seeds by the Duzhi Division, and it is not too late to repay them when the corn is ripe in the next year. According to Lu Jingyu, according to the market price, the market price increased by one, and there were very few households in the border areas, and there was nowhere to sell the millet of the camp soldiers, so it could only be sold to the degree branch division at a low price, so even if the price was increased, it was much cheaper than buying from Guanzhong or other places. In addition, the anti-autumn soldiers drawn from the Kanto region can also be granted fields for a period of three years, and after three years, the anti-autumn barracks will be settled in the border land, unwilling to return, so that the imperial court can issue a long handbook to their families, and provide food to the post houses along the road, to gather with the anti-autumn army, then part of the camp can be changed to Yongye field, awarded to the soldiers, and then according to the law of the government soldiers. In this way, it is possible to turn soldiers into peasants, and it is also possible to turn peasants into soldiers at any time, which can not only enrich the population of the border areas, but also increase and repair armaments. In the words of the ministers, you can not reduce the soldiers, you can not disturb the people, you can have enough food, you can make a big success, and you can also reduce the power of Guandongfang Town (their soldiers came to prevent autumn, and after three years, they will become the border soldiers of my court)! ”

"What Mr. said is very true, so he will follow Gao Yue's model in Baili City, so that there is nothing to do in the world. It's just that it costs a lot of money to plough cattle, farm tools, and seeds, which ......"

"The minister has a plan to solve these three problems at the same time." Li Mi is obviously in his chest.

The emperor was overjoyed, and said that the strategy of the gentleman could be written on the tantric music and read by me in detail.

"Your Majesty, it is better to make peace, government soldiers, and build cities sooner rather than later, and during this time, you can appoint ministers as envoys to Tibet, called to be friendly with Western Tibet, but in fact, to spy on the internal situation of Western Tibet, in order to know yourself and the enemy. The minister has more strategies, but he can trap Xibo without a fight. ”

"What's the solution?" The emperor was impatient.

But Li Mi seemed to be suddenly worried about something, so he prevaricated and said that it would not be too late to discuss it after the corn in the northwest camp field matured once.

Just when the emperor and Li Mi were talking freely in the Penglai Palace, at the corner of the junction of the south wall of the Daming Palace and the inner garden, Gao Yue stood there sneakily, and Xie Renji, the cousin of Reconciliation Shanji, was also talking closely.

This Xie Renji and the other two brothers have been foreign officials in Taiwan Province for so many years, and when Gao Yue passed the official examination, he spent money to bribe his three brothers. Over the years, the ministers have fallen, the dead have died, and even the emperor has been relocated once, but their status is still as stable as Mount Tai, not moving at all, and their awareness and skills of survival can be described as strong.

The foreign officials and miscellaneous officials of the Tang Dynasty were what later generations called officials.

And Gao Yue was born as a jinshi, not only as a liunei official, but also as a "clear-capital route" in the liu-but Gao Yue himself didn't particularly like the clear-capital route, so the main part of his career was to experience brushing feathers in the shogunate or localities. Otherwise, with his promotion speed, he would have been like the high staff of the Prime Minister's room, at least he would have been known to the people of the Zhongshu House.

Liuwaiguan, to use an inappropriate analogy, is a bit similar to the career establishment of Gao Yue's original era (it may be a little inappropriate, because even if they are civil servants now, in fact, most of them are just officials in the Tang Dynasty), and they are clearly distinguishable from Liunei officials.